Mr. Dayananda is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka with 33 years post qualifying experience. He was a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka. Mr. Dayananda has been in Sri Lanka Accountants Service for 20 years. He had also been in the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration as a Senior Consultant for 10 years and at the time of retirement he was the Head of Financial Management Division of SLIDA.